After the battle, General Strek directed the troops to make a fake move... He asked the troops to turn around and move towards Cairo again.

General Streck's approach is of course correct, because this fake move does not take much time and does not consume much fuel (the German army seized the fuel of the 7th Armored Division in battle, so it can afford it), which means that the German army does not need much cost, but can confuse the British army's role.

As for how the news will reach the British command, the German army is not worried... The British 7th Armored Division has a leak, and they will definitely report the relevant situation to their superiors.

Sure enough, Major General Bodon ran for a while with the defeated generals, and found that the German army did not follow him, so he slowed down.

After asking the scouts to turn around and reconnaissance, Major General Burton sent a telegram to General Ochinlek in frustration.

"General!" Major General Bodon said: "The 7th Armored Division is over!"

"What?" General Ochinlek, who was busy dispatching troops to Cairo, was stunned when he saw the telegram, and then asked, "What does it mean when it's over?"

"The Germans turned around and launched a sudden attack on us..." Major General Botton replied: "We suffered heavy losses!"

"How heavy is the loss?" General Ochinlek asked.

"We only have thirty-five tanks left, and we lost more than 5,000 people and most of the artillery..."

The artillery was originally towed behind the car and drove with the car, but the British soldiers hurriedly unraveled the artillery to prepare for defense. When they ran away, they had no time to hang them back, so they all fell into the hands of the Germans.

"How did you do it?" General Ochinlek could no longer maintain his gentlemanly demeanor. He wrote in the telegram without hesitation: "I assigned all the best equipment of the entire army to the 7th Armored Division, but you could not resist a charge from the Germans! God, before that I still hope that you can annihilate the Germans. I am so ridiculous!"

Major General Borton was speechless.

Although Major General Borton knew in his heart that the failure of this battle was not his own fault... in fact, he was carrying out General Ochinlek's orders, and in General Ochinlek's eyes, his combat effectiveness seemed to be only the performance of a tank, but no soldiers' training and coordination.

But Major General Borton could not explain anything, because any explanation is pale now and will be regarded as an excuse... If you lose, you will lose. This is a reality that soldiers must face.

After a while, General Ochinlek asked again: "How many casualties are there in the Germans?"

Bolton replied in fact: "They had almost no casualties, and we were caught off guard!"

Ochinlek doesn't seem surprised to answer this.

"Where are they now?" Ochinlek asked again.

"They should be heading towards Cairo again!" Major General Burton replied.

After this battle, Major General Botton vaguely felt that the 7th Armored Division was the real target of the Germans, but he was not sure.

"Okay!" General Ochinlek ordered: "You are stationed on the spot, and the Australian 6th Infantry Division will arrive in seven hours to meet with you and then advance in the direction of Cairo together!"

"Yes!" Although Major General Borton was very reluctant to do this, because this would make the officers and soldiers of the 7th Armored Division always bear the disdainful eyes and ridicule of the Australian 6th Infantry Division, he still had to obey General Ochinlek's orders.

What Major General Burton didn't know was that his concerns were simply redundant, because the Australian infantry division was attacked by the German army before it met with Burton.

Of course, the 21st Panzer Division attacked them. While Major General Burton's remaining troops were setting up defenses on the spot, the 21st Panzer Division had already gone from both wings to around Major General Burton's position to head straight for the Australian Infantry Division.

It is not easy to find the Australian infantry division. It is only a few hundred meters of visibility due to wind and sand. The two troops may be intersecting not far away but do not know about it.

But after the German scouts discovered the position of the remaining soldiers of the 7th Armored Division, this problem was solved... General Streck speculated that the remaining soldiers of the 7th Armored Division were waiting for the Australian infantry division, so he sent a large number of reconnaissance soldiers to the opposite direction with the remaining soldiers as the starting point and left reconnaissance points along the way.

This is the German strength. The most important basis of "blitz warfare" is reconnaissance, using aircraft reconnaissance and infantry reconnaissance. Only after obtaining accurate information from the enemy can we use tanks to attack the enemy's weaknesses.

In this regard, the 21st Armored Division is actually fighting this time "Blitzkrieg".

Then, the scouts quickly guided the 21st Armored Division into the correct ambush position. When the Australian 6th Infantry Division advanced with difficult steps against the wind, sand and heat waves, a roar of an engine suddenly came from the front, and then rows of tanks appeared in front of them like heavenly soldiers and generals.

Needless to say, the next thing is that although the Australian 6th Infantry Division is stronger than the British army, they are still infantry divisions after all, and they were caught off guard by the German army, so they soon retreated under the German offensive.

But it should be said that the Australian infantry division performed much better than the 7th Armored Division. When they realized they were ambushed, they immediately spread their troops to form a big line of defense, and then retreated while laying mines, and also counterattacked with anti-tank guns.

This made the German army pay the price of twenty tanks and achieved far less results than the battle with the 7th Armored Division.

This is the importance of quality and morale.

Qin Chuan believed that if the same equipment was given to the Australian infantry division rather than to the British master soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the British Eighth Army would be much better.

But the British obviously wouldn't do that, even if they knew this...

Because doing so will damage the dignity of the British on the one hand. The British are superior people, how can they be equipped with worse than the colonial army? On the other hand, it is a question of trust. If the colonial army is better than the British army and has stronger combat effectiveness than the British army, how can the British army control the colonial army? What if the colonial army revolts?

From this we can also see... Although the British Eighth Army has many soldiers and a wide range of generals, its combat effectiveness cannot be fully utilized due to internal contradictions and other issues.

The German army also had problems in this regard. It was difficult for the German and Italian troops to coordinate, but Rommel was very clever to let the German army attack the Italian army be responsible for defending the city... This almost solved the problem of coordination.

Of course, it was only partially resolved, and there were still many differences between Germany and Italy.

It was not until this time that General Ochinlek suddenly realized.
Chapter completed!